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They don't turn aircraft around in 3 years the norm is 6 to 7 and given they sold 8 for 170 Million then buying 50 for 750 is good business but even then that is false as amazingly they sold quite a few of their options onto someone else. Its nice that they have also had cash in as deposits for aircraft they have yet to deliver to people like Garuda etc.

Info is out there its just a pity you don't bother to google it but resort to the same cheap one liners.

Surprisingly credit is easy to come by when the assets you buy are credit funded by the US taxpayer.

A deeply unpleasant company! If any member of the press is reading you may be interested to know that almost every airline crew member I know wouldnt even let there mother in Law fly Ryanair!!! I for one will not lose any sleep when they go down the pan.

With reference to the "Money Central" link at the bottom of the previous page....

If only offering really cheap seats for midweek travel is a reason not to fly Ryanair, then none of us will ever fly again as this is true for all airlines as far as I am aware. Should we boycott them all?

Ryanair only flies at "obscene hours". What nonsense!

"1p flights are never 1p"? Yes they are! I've paid 1p each way on numerous occasions and can even recall a time when I flew (from Stansted to Dublin and back, I think) for less than 1p each way - i.e., for absolutely nothing.

Where criticism is warranted, fine (e.g., the "hard sell" onboard, the horrible fanfare, the website's poor functionality, the lack of a customer services' email address etc.).

These slogans have been around for ages but I still can't believe that a professional airline pilot could call himself a professional by flying an aircraft around like that. Being a professional in any line of work assumes an air of dignity and pride in their behaviour both inside and outside of the workplace. These slogans are the most unprofessional of things and any pilot prepared to fly one should be charged with bringing the profession into disrepute. Unfortunately these "professionals" are not allowed to be members of any professional body thus are exempt from any such charges.

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Another reply from the spin macine, 50% of people here think your on Ryanair payroll the rest know that you'd like to be, as for the American tax payer funding Ryanair, well maybe in Bush era, but charity starts at home and that ain't anywhere near Dublin.

Let revisit this in a years time and see where we all are, there are many airlines with plans and aircraft commitments that remain unfunded

Why should a pilot be to blame if the aircraft he is scheduled to fly on has one of those kind of logos? Does that makes him/her less good? That's ridicolous. It has nothing to do with the pilot, just with the ones from the airline that wanted those titles written on.

Odie we're tired of the same old rhetoric. Give it up.

Yes, it will be interesting to see what position Ryanair is in twelve months from now.

Some argue that Ryanair copied the Southwest model. Thinking about it, I feel the airline which most closely resembles Ryanair is People Express. Now I know there are differences (e.g., the latter's trans-Atlantic operation) but no two airlines are ever going to be identical. My point is look what happened to People Express - swallowed by Continental!

The history of Western civil aviation is one of mergers, acquisitions and bankruptcies.

Bet you ten bob 95% of the passengers don't notice what's written on the plane.

But, blimey, it gets you guys wound up!

Course it does and Export Credit funding is a way of ensuring US goods made by US workers get bought overseas, they do it for big capital items but most especially for the big military expenditure from o/seas, Israel just get loans which congress write off every year.

UK does it as well hence why UK taxpayer paid for Saddam's gear in Gulf War 1.

Yeah, whatever. Put it on the Ryanair thread.